Nothing pt II
Invisible
VIO
"Hey Vi!" Blue greeted me outside my door. "Sleep well?" he asked me. I nodded, even though I had stayed up all night, as I usually did, to stare at my empty shadow. Blue was in his training outfit, so I assumed he was either on duty or was going to see Red. He was always one to show off. He nodded at me, smiled, and left down the hall of the castle. I sighed quietly, the only sound I ever make. As I walked down the halls to make my way to my secret garden, a maid walked straight into me.
"Oh sorry dearie." She continued without a backward glance to me, on my butt on the floor. I shook my head.
After all, like my silence, I remain invisible.
I sit every day in the hidden garden, not even Zelda knows about. It's full of plants from the shadow world, purples, blues, and black versions of flowers in the light world. I pick a single purple calla liliy, alone mixed in with black tulips. No one appreciates calla lilies. How much work they are to keep living. Another sigh escapes me and as I am alone, as always, I whisper his name. "Shadow…"
Like the single flower, no one notices, I am invisible.
The day passes, and I am in my room again. A warm meal sits on the table. I walk past it, and make my own. I never have trusted them, even Red. After cleaning my dinner dishes, I sit at my desk. On top is the book I read last night, that I had written months earlier. I took my quill, dipped in ink, and wrote some more. However, I could not think of anything I could add. Another sigh. I got up and walked around the castle, it being only filled with an occasional guard seeing as it was now almost eleven at night. When I get back, around two after visiting my garden again, there is something on my open book. The purple calla lily. I tilt my head in wonder at the sentence on the page beneath.
"I, like you, are invisible."
~Shadow Link.